Harvey Weinstein's desperate attempts to stop his alleged victims from coming forward reportedly went as far as fake identities and $300,000 "success fees" for killing stories.

The now-disgraced film producer began a plot in the fall of 2016 to shield himself from women who were planning to accuse him of sexual harassment and assault, according to the New Yorker.

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Black Cube, which primarily employs former officers of Mossad and other Israeli intelligence agencies, was hired to help squash the allegations, specifically New York Times and New Yorker articles that were published recently.

Agents collected information on alleged victims' personal and sexual histories, as well as psychological profiles, according to the New Yorker.

Harvey Weinstein reportedly employed a firm that tracked down women who may come forward with accusations against him. (Charles Sykes/Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

One agent reportedly posed as Diana Filip, the deputy head of sustainable and responsible investments at Reuben Capital Partners.

Filip met with Rose McGowan, who would later accuse Weinstein of rape, for the first time in May 2017 and at least three more times later, each time to ask the actress about her help with creating an initiative to combat discrimination against women in the workplace.

During the first meeting, Filip offered McGowan $65,000 to speak at a gala event later that year.

Women who have accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment and assault

Filip, according to the New Yorker, was actually a Black Cube employee who had also presented herself under false identities to Ben Wallace, a reporter at New York, and Jodi Kantor of the New York Times.

Contracts between Black Cube and David Boies, the lawyer working for Weinstein who had argued in front of the Supreme Court in defense of marriage equality, showed a $100,000 payment in October 2016, with the promise of an additional $500,000.

A July contract offered a $300,000 "success fee" if Black Cube "provides intelligence which will directly contribute to the efforts to completely stop the Article from being published at all in any shape or form" and $50,000 if it acquired a copy of McGowan's memoir, "Brave."

One agent allegedly approached Rose McGowan about her help with creating an initiative to combat discrimination against women in the workplace. (RENA LAVERTY/AFP/Getty Images)

Separately, Weinstein hired two former employees, Denise Doyle Chambers and Pamela Lubell, to call women who may go public with allegations, according to the New Yorker.

Lubell claimed she was "manipulated" into reaching out to the potential victims after Weinstein suggested she and Doyle Chambers write a book about "the old times, the heyday, of Miramax."